In the context of notes for a potential sci-fi project…
If I were 8 or 9 feet tall and using an advanced adaptive optical camouflage suit, what would be the best way to compensate for the inability to completely camouflage the wearer when moving? Maybe fake fur?
Another great new article by Kevin Carson — Labor Struggle in a Free Market.
Excerpt:
“Present-day labor law limits the bargaining power of labor at least as much as it reinforces it. That ’s especially true of reactionary legislation like Taft-Hartley and state right-to-work laws. Both are clearly abhorrent to free market principles.”
You can, by voting for it, help promote this article to both the general public on Digg and to Ron Paul fans on Break the Matrix.
Bob Barr recently said he’s running for the office of US president in order to “rekindle peoples faith in government”. That is an anti-libertarian agenda.
Agorists, in particular among libertarians, recognize that perhaps the most crucial task in the process of building a revolutionary libertarian class consciousness is attacking and destroying faith in government. Only a fool or a villain would want to restore people’s faith in government — because both the supposed moral legitimacy and the supposed practical utility of government are lies. Myths. Tall tales. Whoppers. Bullshit.
Those falsehoods are not merely lies, though. They are the lies that form the foundation the entire system of oppression known as “government” rests upon. Reference La Boétie’s centuries old Discourse of Voluntary Servitude. Furthermore, note William Lind’s observation that Fourth Generation Warfare is fundamentally about “a universal crisis of legitimacy of the state”.
UPDATE 2: I don’t usually delete posts, but in this case I’ve learned enough about the views of the maker of the video I previously had embedded here (a few hours ago) to now say that I don’t want to promote their work or associate with them in any way.
UPDATE: Message sent as a result of discussion in comments…
Thanks for your friend request. I recognize it as a compliment that someone would select me, out of all of the other people they could have picked, to send a friend request to. So, thanks for that. There was one video of yours about anarchism that I enjoyed quite a bit and posted about on my blog. It now seems there are some other videos that seem a bit more against my own grain personally in that they touch on or flirt with topics & views which I don’t want to be associated with and generally advocate actively opposing via non-aggressive social sanctions. I do recognize that people evolve intellectually, sometimes quite rapidly. Would you like to discuss where you’re at now ideologically and where you’ve come from?
Libertarian Party members, in aggregate, may actually be the worst possible prospects for libertarian outreach, on average. What they have right is often outweighed by a firm commitment to what they have wrong. To paraphrase Reagan(?), I believe — it’s not what they don’t know, but what they do know (100%) that just isn’t so.
…and I haven’t put up a poll in a while.
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Let’s temporarily set aside, solely for purposes of discussion, my own view that electoral politics is a wrong-headed approach for anarchists to use (regardless of the particular flavor of reformism one might prefer). One could easily say, after all, that we first need to get some slack back on civil liberties (and the so-called GWOT that provides the context for that set of issues) in order for non-electoral approaches to then have a chance to succeed. One could continue arguing that this conception of civil liberties reform as prerequisite for radicalism in the US, in turn, demands putting the right people in government office to create that “breathing room”. While I don’t agree with that view, this blog post isn’t a critique of it. Rather, I’m turning my attention to one of the more frequently cited undeserved beneficiaries of illusory progressive hope — Obama.
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